NGC 6670 (astroeyes)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Draco (Dra)

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NGC 6670

This image shows the NGC 6670 Galaxy interaction in Draco.

NGC 6670 is a pair of overlapping and interacting edge-on disk galaxies (NGC 6670E and NGC 6670W); they are just 50,000 light years apart and about 400 million light-years away in the constellation Draco.

Even though there are no optically identified tidal features, astronomers have detected an H I tail of about 295,000 light-years long, which suggests that the galaxies are interacting and have already experienced at least one close encounter. The galaxies have been perturbed by the interaction. In particular NGC 6670E appears to have been nearly destroyed.

The galaxy pair is very faint, mag. 16.0 My image, recorded on a reasonable night consists of around 75 x 120 second integrations, yet still shows very little detail.

Observations show that the previous encounter between the galaxies had a large impact and that they are now in the early stages of a second interaction. Even though NGC 6670 is still in an early stage of this interaction, astronomers have found evidence of starburst. NGC 6670 glows in the infrared with more than a hundred billion times the luminosity of our Sun.

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